Meaning of Life - 1

The recent news of suicide of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has shocked everyone. It has also resurfaced various debates at the same time. This tragic event is being analysed from various perspectives. Some people have linked this suicide with depression and how mental is crucial to us whereas many people are also questioning on nepotism in Bollywood. People are really furious on how nepotism in film industry creates lots of barriers to outsiders like Sushant that he felt alone and sidelined by the industry which ultimately became reason of his depression. The investigation is going on in this issue and we cannot claim anything as of now. However, fact of today is that only 34 year old talented actor is no more in this world. He has taken his own life due to depression. This whole scenario has made me think on why people commit suicide?

Life and death appears to be opposite of each other but in reality they are very much inter related. Most of the people in the world want a healthy life so that they can prolong life and delay death as much as possible. We celebrate life by celebrating our birthday and want to pretend as if death will never come. Although we all know that death is inevitable truth of life but most of us somehow want to ignore this truth. Then the question arises that why some people end their own life? There are numerous reasons for suicide but in my opinion those people who commit suicide are the ones who could not find meaning of life. The moment you felt your life is meaningless you won't hesitate to end it. So, in order to understand death one need to understand what life is?

So what is life? What is the purpose of living? What do we want from life? I think these questions sounds simple but yet really difficult to answer in a coherent manner. I will be sharing my feelings on these questions in upcoming series of blogs in this topic.